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Minor Transactions: 08/25/21

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Things are slow in the NHL offseason, but that doesn’t mean the hockey world has to come to a stop. European, junior and minor leagues continue to finesse their rosters in preparation for the season. Like always, we’ll keep track of all the notable minor moves right here.

  • It appears as though Mitchell Miller will be getting a chance to continue his hockey career. Jeff Marek of Sportsnet tweets that Miller is expected to re-join the Tri-City Storm of the USHL for this season. The Arizona Coyotes renounced Miller’s draft rights after his past assault charges came to national attention, and the young defenseman was also cut loose by the University of North Dakota. In 2019-20, he recorded 33 points in 44 games with Tri-City.
  • Colton Beck, who spent last season with the Stockton Heat, has signed with Dornbirner EC of the ICEHL. The 31-year-old forward has a long history in the AHL, mostly with the Iowa Wild, but has never suited up for an NHL game. Beck had just six points in 21 games for the Heat last season, scoring just a single goal.
  • The Seattle Kraken have invited Thomas Milic to both rookie and NHL training camp, bringing in the undrafted goaltender as a local option. Milic is from Coquitlam, British Columbia, but plays for the Seattle Thunderbirds of the WHL. He’ll arrive under an amateur tryout but could potentially earn himself an entry-level contract, the same battle many undrafted players are facing this fall.

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Minor Transactions: 12/10/20

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The NHL offseason has come to a standstill, with no unrestricted free agents signed to one-way contracts in a month. Still, the ECHL and many European leagues continue to play or prepare, meaning hockey players signing deals all over the world. We’ll keep track of the notable minor transactions right here.

  • Among the season-opening rosters that were announced by the ECHL today are a few interesting names, including 26-year-old Nikolai Skladnichenko listed as “immigration pending” for the Orlando Solar Bears. Skladnichenko once won a bronze medal as part of Russia’s World Junior squad in 2014 but hasn’t to this point tested his game in North America.
  • Jonathan Sigalet, who was a fourth-round pick of the Boston Bruins in 2005 and played one game in the NHL, was traded in the SHL back to Frolunda HC. Sigalet, now 34, played at Bowling Green State before spending several productive years in the AHL. He left for Europ in 2011 and hasn’t looked back, spending four seasons in the KHL and the last five in the SHL.
  • Colton Beck, who was actually under an NHL contract as recently as the 2019-20 season, has signed with EV Landshut in the German second league. The 30-year-old forward spent five seasons with the Iowa Wild of the AHL but scored just 11 points in 47 games last year.

Minnesota Wild Sign Colton Beck

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Colton Beck has never been handed anything in his hockey career, but over and over has climbed his way up the ladder. Today, he has signed the first NHL contract of his career, inking a two-year, two-way contract with the Minnesota Wild, which is worth an average of $675K at the NHL level. Beck has played the last four seasons with the Iowa Wild, including this year where he has six points in his first seven games.

Beck, 28, has been consistently overlooked throughout his career. First playing in the BCHL to preserve his college eligibility, and then ending up at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, he became the program’s captain in his senior year. Undrafted by any team in the NHL despite his solid numbers at every step, he again failed to earn an NHL deal after graduation. Instead, a short tryout with the St. John’s IceCaps at the end of the 2013-14 season earned him a minor league deal and a spot with the Idaho Steelheads of the ECHL the following season. He quickly showed off his offensive upside and ended up an alternate captain the following year, before a call-up to Iowa made him an AHLer.

Now several years into that AHL career and he’s performing at another high level, thus deserving a contract with Minnesota. The 5’11” 183-lbs forward will still have to fight for a chance to play in the NHL, but at least he has some people who can teach him what it takes. His uncle, Barry Beck, was captain of the New York Rangers for six seasons and played more than 615 games in the NHL.

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